{"id":85696,"date":"2019-02-14T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85696"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:31:43","slug":"q224-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85696","title":{"rendered":"Q224 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.
\nTo read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part \u201c8-Aug. Peoples Town Forum\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Items on news tape consistent with label<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nGriffin Bell, Attorney General (by reference)
\nAndrew Young, US ambassador to UN
\nRep. Wyche Fowler (D-Georgia) (by reference)
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/p>\n

Pope Paul VI
\nYuri Orlov, Soviet dissident
\nAlexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident
\nNatan Sharansky, Soviet dissident<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister
\nCheddi Jagan, head of Guyana\u2019s Peoples Progressive Party<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader
\nJesse Jackson, civil rights leader
\nRoy Wilkins, civil rights leader
\nMembers of Wilmington 10 [by reference]
\nCharles Pressidy [phonetic], reporter<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/div>\n
Tom Grubbs
\nJohn Harris<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jim Jones answers several written questions about recent news events in a nightly meeting of the Jonestown community. The session is structured as a study guide for an upcoming test on current events, although Jones pauses only once or twice to give anyone else a chance to answer the questions. Instead, he asks the questions, then expounds upon an answer.<\/p>\n

He reminds the crowd that they will need to know these answers, but rather than berate anyone \u2013 or the community at large \u2013 for not having the knowledge, he chides them in relatively gentle terms without raising his voice a single time.<\/p>\n

Most of the topics to be studied for the test are familiar \u2013 the situation in Namibia, the Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>, economic conditions in the US \u2013 and for the most part, his own answers reflect the pro-Soviet line that he has adopted and that has only been reinforced by his sources of news on the radio. He disparages American capitalism, neocolonialism, and religion. He describes three Soviet citizens, considered by the West to be \u201cdissidents,\u201d as criminals.<\/p>\n

He nevertheless, does offer his own unconventional \u2013 but by then, familiar \u2013 views on the news, such as \u201cthe inevitability of nuclear war,\u201d the imminent construction of concentration camps for poor and minority populations in America\u2019s inner cities, and the use of the neutron bomb as the ultimate solution for eliminating poverty and the problem of unemployment in America\u2019s working class. \u201cThat\u2019s why we call the neutron bomb the nigger bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also speaks well of his political patron in Guyana. Prime Minister Forbes Burnham has been a stalwart defender of \u201cthe revolution in Guyana.\u201d He declares that the Peoples Temple community is \u201csafer here in Guyana than any place in the world\u201d in part because of Burnham\u2019s demonstrated resistance to American hegemony and in part because the country doesn\u2019t have \u201canything right now US has to have.\u201d Burnham has \u201ca lot of bravery, whatever faults there are in this country,\u201d Jones concludes, then adds a heartfelt declaration: \u201cI\u2019m glad I brought you here. It\u2019s the best thing I ever did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The session ends when Jones runs out of questions to answer, but more likely, because, as he says, \u201cI do have to pee, because my bladder might burst.\u201d His urgency may also account for an uncharacteristically rapid fire delivery of the news and dispensing with the evening\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of transcription: 6\/2\/79<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On May 28, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B70-10. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News and commentary; a reading of current events by JIM JONES.<\/p>\n

JONES stated that all residents of Jonestown were to speak as socialists when visitors were present.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tape originally posted\u00a0January 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c8-Aug. Peoples Town Forum\u201d Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":92,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85696"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97656,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85696\/revisions\/97656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}